In passing – left a few, but as this is me they’re in WMA format – hope you can convert. The Meic Stevens contributions are from his “Outlander” album, which some reckon to be the greatest of all Welsh albums – ever. (I’m not in an argumentative mood.) Trees weren’t a Welsh band, but as they lived in a commune at Arthog and “Murdoch” is about cattle-rustling on the slopes of Cader Idris I’ve dropped it anyway…

International Velvet – Catatonia 1998
Painting People Blue – Gruff Rhys 2007
Ymaelodi A’r Ymylon – Super Furry Animals 2000
Monster (Culprit One Remix) – Automatic 2006
You Need Satan More Than He Needs You – Future Of The Left 2009
Clarinet Town – Hot Puppies 2007
Waiting For Jane – The Gentle Good 2007
The Unfilmable Life And Life Of… – Spencer McGarry Season 2007
More Life In A Tramps Vest – Stereophonics 1997

chucking these in a folder for you – you might get a week of lessons at this rate.

Panther: As usual I was confused, I thought I remembered Harlech as being choral, just checked spotty and there’s only instrumental versions there though there’s plenty if you search under ‘Welsh music’.

I’d try to include Aberystwyth’s finest, Murry the Hump: how about Cracking Up?

The whole of their great lp Songs of Ignorance is on Spotify, I also love Five and The House That Used To Be A Ship or Green, Green Grass of Home, which isn’t the Tom jones song!I’d also recommend The Crocketts, who became The Crimea. I remember Davey playing all these songs in Rummers and at my 25th birthday: here’s Blue Dog. Warning, contains swears.
Yep to Catatonia (Bleed for pref), Gorkys (Patio Song for a lovely Welsh bit about how it’s raining in the middle eight), SFA (Hometown Unicorn? Man Don’t Give A Fuck?) and definitely Los Campesinos!Current fave is Straight in At 101, which has the immortal line “I think we need more post-coital and less post-rock/Seems like the build-up takes forever, still you never touch my cock”. Oh yes.
Melys’ Cuckoo was a big Peel fave.

The Crocketts ! I directed one of their pop promos back in 2001 (I think) it’s a great song called Host. On you tube somewhere but it doesn’t say magicman anywhere, heh heh. So they’re called The Crimea huh. I told ‘em the Crocketts was a duff name. Good band.
Catatonia exactly.
Next week : Bosnian music